Canadian Gardening: What's happening in your neck of the woods? #23, 0 by fancyvan

fancyvan wrote:
Next week at Lougheed House is 'Christmas All Thru The House' All the rooms are decorated by a bevy of interior designers and if they look anything like last year it will be spectacular. Anyway I am working at the VIP evening on Tuesday and then every day except Wed! Not so bad as it sounds, 3 hour shifts each day.

So since late last winter new costumes have been underway for the historical interpretors and it has been PAINFULLY slow! My skirt, which is a lovely coral shade and for which I had a fitting in July needed to have the waist altered and it still is not done! But tonight I picked up my blouse which finally has been trimmed so here is a sneak peak. You cant see them well but there are pin tucks all down the front and around the sleeves and later she will cut out the fabric behind the lace so it shows up against my skin instead of the material of the blouse. The 'stuffing ' for the top of the sleeves has also not shown up so they dont sit up high the way they should. The blouses have been tea dyed so they are not the glaring white of the original fabric.There is also a jabot to be attached at the collar on with a nice pin. I will get pics at the house next week in full fig!